Mike Brown will speak at UC Berkeley on April 11, 2023 on the emerging security challenges that the United States faces in the Indo-Pacific and the role of technological innovation in strategic competition. His remarks will expand on his recent article in Foreign Affairs, “Taiwan’s Urgent Task: A Radical New Strategy to Keep China Away,” as well as his paper with Pavneet Singh and RADM Lorin Selby, “A Hedge Strategy to Strengthen Defense Capabilities.” The event will feature an audience Q&A.

Mike Brown is a Venture Partner at Shield Capital, a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution and the Former Director of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) at U.S. Department of Defense.

Emerging Security Challenges in the Indo-Pacific: Innovation in an Era of Strategic Competition will take place at 4:00 PM PDT on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall. For more information and to register, please click the button below.

To read “Taiwan’s Urgent Task: A Radical New Strategy to Keep China Away,” as well as “A Hedge Strategy to Strengthen Defense Capabilities” please use the links below.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), the Institute of International Studies (IIS), the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC), the Tech Policy Initiative, and the CITRIS Policy Lab.